On Being Asked for a War Poem by William Butler Yeats

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On Being Asked for a War Poem

William Butler Yeats (1928)

I think it better that in times like these A poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth We have no gift to set a statesman right; He has had enough of meddling who can please A young girl in the indolence of her youth, Or an old man upon a winter’s night.


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